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- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
well as the economic development and taxation initiatives pursued by different mayors. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/713035-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- February 2021
- Case
Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris
In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did... View Details
Keywords: Solar Energy; Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Salesforce Management; Diversification; Expansion; Energy Industry; Africa; South Africa; Malawi; Uganda
Applegate, Lynda M., Frank V. Cespedes, and Michael Norris. "Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa." Harvard Business School Case 821-041, February 2021.
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
business' role in society and developing a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into action. Our Mission & Team BiGS Fellows Global Leadership Roundtables Tools & Resources Societies worldwide are facing pressing social,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want to see positive View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
business education. Washington served as principal of Tuskegee University, which provided vocational training in agriculture and industry, from its founding in 1881. 2 Du Bois believed a liberal arts education played a critical role in the View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Decade Award for “Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women’s Leadership Development Programs” (September 2011) with Herminia Ibarra and Deborah M. Kolb. Robin J. Ely : Awarded the 2021 Outstanding Practitioner-Orientated... View Details
- December 2014
- Article
Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies
By: Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung
Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of... View Details
Keywords: Location Strategies; Location Choices; Agglomeration Economies; Strategy; Value Creation; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Microeconomics; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies." Strategic Management Journal 35, no. 12 (December 2014): 1749–1761.
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
hagiographies. Alfred Chandler Jr. Chandler developed for business history a coherent theoretical framework built around his "3-pronged investment" in manufacturing, marketing, and management, and the notion of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
temptation on work performance. The idea for the study came from a conversation that Piovesan and his research partner Alessandro Bucciol of the University of Verona had with Daniel Houser, head of George Mason's Interdisciplinary Center for View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
detail, and supporting economic data is provided. By enabling an analysis of how long and how aggressively an artist should be supported before commercial success is achieved, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different approaches to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
social categories. We discuss the ethical implications of these decision-making biases in the context of organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-033.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
however, is only the beginning of what is possible through the IoT. “What you see in the consumer domain is interesting, but it’s not where the economic action is,” says Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Wasserman Taking the Game to a New Level: Zeynep Ton Finding Reason in the Irrational: Ulrike Malmendier Star Search: Boris Groysberg On the Case: First-Year Professors Develop a Taste for Teaching The Big Aha When Noam Wasserman enrolled... View Details
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
from Firm-Level Surveys, was conducted by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Zoe Cullen and Associate Professors Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton, with colleagues Alexander Bartik, an economics professor at the University of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz